how clouds work (in video games)

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  • @kuunami
    @kuunami 2 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    The noise texture to emulate cloud shadows on the ground is brilliant. 99.9 percent of gamers would never think to look up to see of the clouds are really obscuring the background.

    • @sermerlin1
      @sermerlin1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      im that 00.1% who didn't get fooled. I saw cloud shadow first thing i did was look up and saw the sun stare at me directly and was actually pissed off because how lame it looked and cheap.
      I thought it was advanced cloud system but found out it was just another lame trick.

    • @bluedark7724
      @bluedark7724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gamers are consumers 🙂 it only requires money

    • @bluedark7724
      @bluedark7724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sermerlin1 what game ? Why was your expectation high?

    • @sermerlin1
      @sermerlin1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@bluedark7724 I think first game was battlefield 3 where I saw the shadows on the ground but then when I looked at the sky I saw a clear sky around the sun and was pissed off.
      Genshin impact was another one and there were quite more of them I can't remember the names now. I play fuck ton of games.
      My expectations are always high.

    • @sufy.r
      @sufy.r 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      i played zelda breath of the wild recently and i was impressed by the cloud shadow on the ground so i looked up at the sun to check, and it was actually blocked by a cloud, that was epic

  • @cloudwolf3972
    @cloudwolf3972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    I would like to mention Sky: Children of the Light that has impressive volumetric cloud technology that can create huge volumetric clouds while runs smoothly on mobile phones

    • @bagelscoundrel5581
      @bagelscoundrel5581 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      YES!! YESS!!!!

    • @seducedenvelope
      @seducedenvelope 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Except the game sucks lmao

    • @scrubmmm8643
      @scrubmmm8643 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      YESSS I was so damn surprised of how well it ran in my phone!

    • @Nero_PR
      @Nero_PR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gravity Rush 2 has some nice clouds as well, and you can fly directly to them. Too bad that game uses baked lighting to give the particular aesthetic flavor of each region.

    • @decb.7959
      @decb.7959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I haven't played the game, but in screenshots it looks more like they're using meshes with a fancy shader (kind of like the sea of thieves clouds mentioned in the video). The clouds are still really impressive though, they made the shader look really good.

  • @MysticalReaper
    @MysticalReaper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +209

    For me Red Dead Redemption 2 has some crazy clouds. The rain actually is where the clouds are. Like in real life..Like if it's raining in one little part of the map but you run a couple steps where that little blob of dark clouds are not then it's not raining there until the cloud reaches that spot...I was blown away when I first play RDR2 when It came out. Gaming is getting so advanced as we go through the years I absolutely love it

    • @elitedangeroustheworldnext9086
      @elitedangeroustheworldnext9086 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      the graphics cult are preaching again.....

    • @sdp640
      @sdp640 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah it's so weird he didn't even mention that in video

    • @oonmm
      @oonmm 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And horse scrotum.

    • @gabrielandy9272
      @gabrielandy9272 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @kid named finger its not, its just a very scripted mission game, not much inovative on teh gampelay just graphics.

    • @XDrotkon
      @XDrotkon ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't even knew it works like that in real life, until I actually run away from the rain until I wasn't under the cloud.

  • @simpson6700
    @simpson6700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    it's crazy how much of current age graphics already existed in crysis. volumetric clouds were only one of the many things that blew me away back in the day.

  • @MateoTheDev
    @MateoTheDev 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    As a videogame devloger (if that's even a word) I LOVE this channel, it's good for cool ideas and easier picturing of the in-game asset creation

  • @KushagraPratap
    @KushagraPratap 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    "So yea, clouds are pretty coo-"

  • @timothy209
    @timothy209 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    There was this other technique I saw in one of Joe Garths vids.
    You place a cloud texture and a plane and make the plane fade when it intersects with geometry.

  • @aminjl_art
    @aminjl_art 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love these videos of how things are made or work

  • @Asycid
    @Asycid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of my favourite vol. clouds technique is in the game called Miasmata. That indie game has better lighting and cloud visuals (the terrain lighting is real time casted by the sun and the clouds can really make shadows) than a lots of AAA games, and it's and old game.

  • @Anna_Rae
    @Anna_Rae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Xenoblade 2 has some pretty fluffy clouds given the switch hardware. They’re used everywhere, because the sea is made of them.

  • @SebasCordero
    @SebasCordero 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love this type of content, I'm a non-gamer (sadly XD) doing some basic work in Unreal Engine, it helps me understand the reasoning behind some of the things you need to go thru in game engines. Thanks!

  • @quaweds
    @quaweds 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Meanwhile minecraft is dominating the cloud game with actual clouds you can see, go through and see shadows for.

  • @Wishbone_Games
    @Wishbone_Games 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You cant even see the sky in my game but you made me want to add clouds

    • @rambii.
      @rambii. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is not hard actually if you are using Unity shadergraph.

  • @FortyThievesOrkestar
    @FortyThievesOrkestar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love these short tech explenations

  • @DankMemes-xq2xm
    @DankMemes-xq2xm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Sea of Thieves is an artistic masterpiece. I feel like Rare doesn't get the respect it deserves.

    • @seducedenvelope
      @seducedenvelope 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It looks good but if gameplay sucks then it's failed as a game

  • @PS1212
    @PS1212 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    IDFK's clouds gotta be the most realistic, charp yet fluffy; fully volumetric & best of all, full accurate shadow calculation on land

  • @crazykit1967
    @crazykit1967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Horizon Forbidden West's clouds look more real than real life clouds

    • @cuteshadow
      @cuteshadow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Doesnt that make them unreal again though?

    • @yakovvidberg7035
      @yakovvidberg7035 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Never go outside and see the beautiful world gosh gave us

  • @iraidius3343
    @iraidius3343 ปีที่แล้ว

    I grew up in central Florida and my absolute favorite part of Florida were the thunder storm clouds. I've always dreamed of technology advancing to the point to be able to replicate them and I feel like we're getting fairly close!

  • @Conversation_Dev
    @Conversation_Dev 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm feeling that Apex example. Looks gorgeous and is performant.

  • @andre-arthur
    @andre-arthur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loved this video! Very informative and taught me something I had no idea was so cool! Top tier quality and engagement!

  • @ninenin1706
    @ninenin1706 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this video! I would like to add that maybe Genshin also uses SDF to create clouds except for noise mapping.

  • @gabrielandy9272
    @gabrielandy9272 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:55 but some games does use real cloud shadows, depends on the game acctualy games that does this usually use volumetric clouds.

  • @andre-arthur
    @andre-arthur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Clouds have become my favorite part of a game.

  • @Retsih
    @Retsih ปีที่แล้ว

    the translucent plane for cloud shadows in a really good idea but nothing else in this video helped me with my project . i needed to know how optimized clouds are being used in AAA games such as rdr2

  • @PanMan47
    @PanMan47 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I kid you not I was thinking of this just a few hours ago before TH-cam recommended it to me

  • @flying_redkite
    @flying_redkite ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing work :)
    Thanks !

  • @RealSA1NT
    @RealSA1NT 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This vid are so easy to digest i love it

  • @vnkkalninsh
    @vnkkalninsh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    No Man's Sky has great volumetric clouds for anyone interested 👌

  • @DrawnSean
    @DrawnSean 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cloud Tech Star Citizen is using is pretty cool.

  • @killerkram1337
    @killerkram1337 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Star Citizen has incredibly advanced cloud technology as well. The are very impressive to see in action but VERY resource intensive.

  • @nikolajmelchior5977
    @nikolajmelchior5977 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anyone else ever noticed just how amazing the sky and clouds look in dyig light 2?

  • @sdp640
    @sdp640 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    After MSFS, Rdr2 is another game i can think of with some impressive volumetric clouds

  • @SamSodapop01
    @SamSodapop01 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In Minecraft, we have square clouds

  • @jamesdouglass8859
    @jamesdouglass8859 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is the best video ive ever seen

  • @Just_a_niceguy
    @Just_a_niceguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm certain we had volumetric clouds mod's for Skyrim way back in 2013-14. It was really amazing.
    I wonder how old this method is?

    • @darrennew8211
      @darrennew8211 ปีที่แล้ว

      The map in Skyrim is actually you looking down from far above the playfield. If there's a dragon flaming when you go into the map, you can see the flame on the map. I'm pretty sure Skyrim has had some sort of volumetric clouds since release.

  • @andreasmoyseos5980
    @andreasmoyseos5980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a great video - concise, interesting, pretty, current, at the perfect level of accessibility. Thank you very much! I wish i wasn't a subscriber so I could subscribe.

  • @KingKelechiMusic
    @KingKelechiMusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    very cool

  • @Helgrind44
    @Helgrind44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would love to learn how to do a stylized skybox

  • @Демократът
    @Демократът 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shadergraph tutorial on Sea of Thiefs like clouds would be great.

  • @tiedyetophat8599
    @tiedyetophat8599 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Star Citizen may have a lot of things to hate on, but I can't hate on their cloud tech. It's kind of insane how they've managed to get planet sized volumetric clouds working!

  • @ZoofyZoof
    @ZoofyZoof ปีที่แล้ว

    This is one of those videos where I'm like "oh that's cool, I should watch this", and then I get to watching the first 10 seconds and I don't understand why I even clicked on the video, I don't care at all.

  • @joshua376
    @joshua376 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thought you meant clouds as in cloud computing but this was still an enjoyable watch lmao

  • @GraveUypo
    @GraveUypo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    oh cool someone who actually knows what they're talking about. i'm tired of people saying genshin's ugly simple clouds are volumetric.
    i mean, the game DOES have volumetric clouds, but they're all inside domains... and usually on the floor

  • @mordecaigaming4203
    @mordecaigaming4203 ปีที่แล้ว

    this made me wanna make a video of me looking at clouds in different games

  • @the3rdimension
    @the3rdimension 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How Destruction works in video games?(especially in CONTROL)

    • @2ksnakenoodles
      @2ksnakenoodles 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Boolean operators

    • @the3rdimension
      @the3rdimension 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@2ksnakenoodles i don't think it is used in destruction
      I use blender's cell fracture to make destructible pieces. That's one method but, it's not limited to just that, there would be much more methods

  • @originalcharacter2470
    @originalcharacter2470 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What about a flat piece of mesh with a cloud painted on? Wouldn't opaque part of the cloud obscure the light coming from the "sun" and cast a shadow?

  • @headhxntrr
    @headhxntrr ปีที่แล้ว

    0:59 it's storm point

  • @leodio-zero
    @leodio-zero 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey,really like ur video Im a new subscriber..I have a question...when you created a game..where do you get music or sound for your game?

  • @zacadoole1
    @zacadoole1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Missed opportunity to make a Final Fantasy pun in the first 10 seconds

  • @BigRubberDucky
    @BigRubberDucky 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Still love these videos

  • @chilling...
    @chilling... 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Even clouds in the sky are interactive

  • @calebjohnson9406
    @calebjohnson9406 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Warthunder gots cool clouds

  • @julianx2rl
    @julianx2rl ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sky on Android has some seriously impressive clouds.

  • @SYNTH_M4N
    @SYNTH_M4N 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:57 *storm point

  • @0rdyin
    @0rdyin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sky: Children of light has one the most interactive cloud rendering in Video games

  • @Kuyrim
    @Kuyrim 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Subbed more video plz, love you

  • @Quatuux
    @Quatuux 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Imo the best ones so far are the ones from Red Dead Redemption 2.

  • @shannonbarlow2366
    @shannonbarlow2366 ปีที่แล้ว

    POINT, ITS CALLED STORM POINT 0:58

  • @bunnytenshi9920
    @bunnytenshi9920 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Although I don’t know much about 3D art, I wanted to know is it possible yet to make clouds that change over time (similar to Sea of Thieves or Sky Children of Light), but look toon/anime-like, similar to Genshin Impact!

    • @seducedenvelope
      @seducedenvelope 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Anything is possible if you believe in yourself!

    • @ieatthighs
      @ieatthighs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yes, a shader can be used for this

  • @uozzi3014
    @uozzi3014 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    what is the song? It was stuck in my mind

  • @wekkimeif7720
    @wekkimeif7720 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How about the clouds in MS Flight sim latest one?

  • @Aal_Walker
    @Aal_Walker ปีที่แล้ว

    gta sa have skybox too, but mods, its beautiful too for 2004 games

  • @parsy12
    @parsy12 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:51 which game is this

  • @rodroeq7956
    @rodroeq7956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not related to clouds sorry, but I put my first hand painted asset in Unreal and it looks like shit, most of the videos I saw were center around creating the asset and not integrating it in to the engine. Does someone have some video recommendation of how to set your materials for hand painted assets in Unreal.

  • @XAHAK
    @XAHAK 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think it's time to do an update on how arcane was made

  • @baggelissonic
    @baggelissonic 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Waiting for the "top 10 clouds" video

  • @alemonypiggle
    @alemonypiggle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kind of crazy that you can even get fully functioning volumetric clouds in Minecraft using shaders

  • @charleg8759
    @charleg8759 ปีที่แล้ว

    Whats the game at 1:30

  • @chilling...
    @chilling... 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What about the mobile game sky children of light it deals a lot with the interaction with clouds through the map

  • @MyMilho
    @MyMilho 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i never got tricked by the genshin clouds lmaooo bcs i knew breath of the wild had a weather system with this realistic clouds and it was projected into the ground, so when i got to play genshin i observed if the shadows on the ground were being projected by the ones in the sky and THEY WERE NOT
    but hey, if you know your genshin lore, the sky is canonically fake 😏😏😏😏

  • @supremeleaderkimjongun
    @supremeleaderkimjongun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    clouds in RDR2 is fucking awesome

  • @drad_0971
    @drad_0971 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Red Dead Redemption 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator and Cyberpunk 2077 have one of the best volumetric clouds

  • @mattiamerenda8121
    @mattiamerenda8121 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Enjoyable

  • @023_naaziagulnar6
    @023_naaziagulnar6 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much sir I co up with one Nice tutorialt wonders in my sleep and can't even make a soft.... No I did not

  • @Wilhuf1
    @Wilhuf1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    No Man’s Sky clouds.

  • @brainshack9077
    @brainshack9077 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Teach us flow maps senpai.

  • @D.Enniss
    @D.Enniss 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Among many other technological achievements, Star Citizen has a *gas giant bigger than actual Earth,* the whole planet is volumetric clouds!
    Random video of it: th-cam.com/video/kN4DoIXGCyc/w-d-xo.html

  • @blobbything2986
    @blobbything2986 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are No Man's Sky's clouds volumetric?

  • @KyleFS
    @KyleFS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Would be interested in seeing one of these videos covering the clouds in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

  • @JohnPaulBuce
    @JohnPaulBuce ปีที่แล้ว

    meanwhile im here stuck at minecraft blocky clouds

  • @maddogmcgruder5435
    @maddogmcgruder5435 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Try Mad Max

  • @aphidamas1
    @aphidamas1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anyone else craving cotton candy?

  • @KME4698
    @KME4698 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Storm Point, not Front

  • @zine_eddinex24
    @zine_eddinex24 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    🆒

  • @YelmurcW
    @YelmurcW 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Look up Star Citizen clouds, really impressive, they have a fully volumetric gas giant in the game.

  • @sleipnir_8364
    @sleipnir_8364 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    But what is Cloud Gaming?

  • @murphy0
    @murphy0 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    its stormpoint not stormfront

  • @RealVergilSparda
    @RealVergilSparda 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Or just insert a "clouds" into the workspace and everything is done for you

  • @IT.93
    @IT.93 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ok so this isn't a FFVII video, not that kind of "cloud". Got it, great video tho.

  • @shaikhabdulbasit5717
    @shaikhabdulbasit5717 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    🥧

  • @leyrrad8915
    @leyrrad8915 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i don't get a **** but nice video

  • @noot3778
    @noot3778 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    why is there so much hate for genshin inpact it's a fine game

  • @528hrtz
    @528hrtz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    please stop adding chemtrails into video games

  • @moogymucai
    @moogymucai 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Then there's soft soft ruining the content for my new

  • @sleepyshinx174
    @sleepyshinx174 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy gotta mention genshin impact in every video huh?

  • @vighneshkoalapan8851
    @vighneshkoalapan8851 ปีที่แล้ว

    hey can you please try out the Horizon forbidden west DLC: Burning shores, and maybe do an analysis? I would love to hear your thoughts, thank you.